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: Wednesday,
25th November 1953
Script : Charles Eric Maine Producer : Andrew Osborn Notes : Actor Jack Rodney (1916-1967) also appeared in The Avengers episode Crescent Moon as Fernandez and the series The Quatermass Experiment as Ramsay. Robert Ayres (1914-1968) was a character actor who specialised in military roles in later life with appearances in the films Battle Beneath The Earth (as Admiral Hillebrand), The Heroes of Telmark (as General Courts) and A Night To Remember (as Major Peuchen) amongst many others. George Murcell (1925 - 1998) is now mostly remembered for supplying the voice for Proffessor Rudolph Popkiss in the Gerry Anderson puppet series Supercar during it's first season (Murcell was replaced by Cyril Shaps during the second season). Murcell also starred in Gerry Anderson's first (and still unreleased) feature film Crossroads To Crime (1960) and episodes of The Avengers (Square Root of Evil), Ghost Squad, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions, The Persuaders!, Jason Kingand The Professionals. He can also be seen as the character Grels in the sublime Nigel Kneale play The Year of the Sex Olympics and as a series regular in the BBC production 1990 opposite Edward Woodward. Producer Andrew Osborn (1912-1985) later produced the first season of R3 and the period drama series When The Boat Comes In.
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This
thirty-minute drama is one of many lost early productions which where
simply not telecorded by the BBC. The play told the story of John
Mallory, played by Jack Rodney, who dies and is returned to
life by an injection of adrenalin. Mallory appears perfectly healthy
apart from his sense if time. He is now ahead of everybody else by 4.7
seconds and is able to answer questions before they are asked. In a drastic
form of treatment Mallory is suffocated and brought back to life
by a more measured dose of adrenalin.
Writer Charles Eric Maine later recycled the plot for a film version again called Timeslip. The 1956 film was directed by Ken Hughes (who later directed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). Maine later wrote a novel based on the plot which was also called Timeslip. A curiosity from the early years that would not have been out of place in the later popular anthology shows of the 50s and 60s. |